Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to untell
Participle: untold
Gerund: untelling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | untell |
| you | untell |
| he;she;it | untells |
| we | untell |
| you | untell |
| they | untell |
Perfect
| I | have untold |
| you | have untold |
| he;she;it | has untold |
| we | have untold |
| you | have untold |
| they | have untold |
Past
| I | untold |
| you | untold |
| he;she;it | untold |
| we | untold |
| you | untold |
| they | untold |
Pluperfect
| I | had untold |
| you | had untold |
| he;she;it | had untold |
| we | had untold |
| you | had untold |
| they | had untold |
Future
| I | will untell |
| you | will untell |
| he;she;it | will untell |
| we | will untell |
| you | will untell |
| they | will untell |
Future Perfect
| I | will have untold |
| you | will have untold |
| he;she;it | will have untold |
| we | will have untold |
| you | will have untold |
| they | will have untold |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | untell |
| you | untell |
| he;she;it | untell |
| we | untell |
| you | untell |
| they | untell |
Perfect
| I | have untold |
| you | have untold |
| he;she;it | have untold |
| we | have untold |
| you | have untold |
| they | have untold |
Imperfect
| I | untold |
| you | untold |
| he;she;it | untold |
| we | untold |
| you | untold |
| they | untold |
Pluperfect
| I | had untold |
| you | had untold |
| he;she;it | had untold |
| we | had untold |
| you | had untold |
| they | had untold |
Conditional
Present
| I | would untell |
| you | would untell |
| he;she;it | would untell |
| we | would untell |
| you | would untell |
| they | would untell |
Perfect
| I | would have untold |
| you | would have untold |
| he;she;it | would have untold |
| we | would have untold |
| you | would have untold |
| they | would have untold |
Imperative
| you | untell |
| we | Let's untell |
| you | untell |
Verbs conjugated like 'untell'
foretell,
resell,
retell,
sell,
tell,
undersell,
betell,
cross-sell,
forthtell,
mis-sell,
missell,
no-sell,
onsell,
overtell,
presell,
pretell,
short-sell,
supersell,
unsell,
untell, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'untell'
unsell,
betell,
knell,
onsell,
outtell,
retell,
snell,
tell,
unball,
unbelt,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From un- + tell.
Sample Sentences
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Narrative untells itself by multiplying itself into discontinuous "turns" that cannot be resolved into a continuous story. [1993, Jack Selzer, Understanding scientific prose, page 54:]
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Trinh (1991) writes that untelling the stories of privilege and marginality is a form of displacement that takes a long time. [1998, Diane DuBose Brunner, Between the masks: resisting the politics of essentialism, page 29:]
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And once his story was told, it was told; there was no way to untell it, no way to make himself look good. [2004, Patrick Bizzaro, More lights than one: on the fiction of Fred Chappell, page 103:]
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That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, / To untell the days, and to redeem these hours. [1607, Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed with Kindness:]